If you're having trouble coming up with fake names, try these:

Random Name Generators

http://www.geocities.com/phillipriley/ngmain.html

http://www.kleimo.com/random/name.cfm

http://www.behindthename.com/random/

http://www.namator.com/about.php - Gives names for People Companies Fantasy Planets

http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/ - Creates entire identities, including phone number, address and mothers maiden name.

If you have multiple ISPs, that's a good start...But here's some more tips:

Of course, you can have tons of GMail accounts.

Better yet, www.mail.com offers you 250 different email domains, including many cities, US states and countries.

Managing multiple email addresses...Here's two FREE multi email checkers:

http://www.eprompter.com/ FREE ePrompter will check up to 16 email addresses.

http://www.poppeeper.com/ FREE

I use:
http://enterprise.pennock.nl/pen/

It checks unlimited email accounts (check link above for list of email services) and it's only $5.

All of these programs are great and allow you to keep track of a bunch of email addresses all in "one place".

Here is another mass email checker that I use (its free):

I just purchased 20 new .infos at GoDaddy as they are having a .info sale for $.89.

I usually like to register domains at Namecheap since they have free 'whois guard', but they charge a fee at GoDaddy for whois privacy.

My question is: is it a good idea to use fake names and contacts for your whois info? Maybe using an email address that is forwarded to a catch-all email? If so, is it ok to use different whois info for every domain that's registered with the same registrar (GoDaddy in this case).

Thanks for any advice...Calvin

Hey Calvin,

Yes and no. You do have the legalities of using correct info for your domains. If your sole purpose of doing this is for SEO, you can get away with a lot just by changing text strings:

Calvin Smith
C. A. Smith
C. Smith

2121 Pine
2 1 2 1 Pine St
2121 Pine Street #000

Then use different emails. In the above, it's all legit info, but will pass a "dupe filter" used by the engines.

Also, if the domains are all hosted on the same service, your whois won't matter. Same for using the same affiliate ID numbers, etc.

Basically, it's 6 of one, a 1/2 dozen of the other...

Thanks Kurt. In the future, I'll diversify my domain registrars and spin the contact info.